1944, late winter.
Yan Bin, a farmer in the east end of Daqingwan Village, Silian District, Sanlian County, received a letter. He couldn't read a big word and quickly found the literate man in the village and asked the other party to help tell me what was said in the letter.
However, when the other party helped him read the letter, Yan Bin became confused.
Because the person in the letter actually claimed to be Yan Bin's son. He had been outside for many years and had no choice but to go to the Eighth Route Army.
Now that he has been arrested and has been influenced by the government, he misses his relatives quite much. He hopes that after seeing the letter, his parents can bring him a pair of shoes and some dry food.
It is true that I have a son, but I am only sixteen years old. When I went out, the child was still in the yard and never went far.
Yan Bin took the letter back home. Along the way, he kept thinking about who the name of the person who signed the letter - Li Shu, is it? But after thinking about it, I can't remember when I met the other person.
"It must be that I sent the wrong letter. I dare to guarantee this person, I definitely don't know him." When I got home, Yan Bin threw the letter on the table and muttered to tell his wife Yan Zhang's content.
Yan Zhang heard the "li Shu" her husband said, and a figure suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Li Shu, Li Shu, don't be Li Yushu from the 10th Special Office." Li Yushu is the secretary of the 10th Special Office of the Anti-Japanese Government. Because during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Yan family, as a fortress, often covered the underground party and the cadres and staff of the Anti-Japanese Government. Over the years, there have been many people staying at their homes and hiding, and Li Yushu is one of them.
Several months ago, Yan Zhang heard from the organization that Li Yushu was unfortunately arrested.
Now, it is very likely that he wrote this abrupt letter. After Li Yushu was arrested, he removed the word "yu" in his name and changed the book into a tree to avoid and confuse the enemy's investigation.
"Why did Comrade Li ask us to go? Do you want us to send information while visiting prison?" Yan Bin also felt that his wife's guess made sense, but when he thought of going to the prison in the enemy's occupied area this time and acting in the enemy's tiger's den, he couldn't help but feel a little scared.
"Comrade Li must have admitted to the enemy through our relatives' relationship. He needs us to cover this time, so we must not go." Although Yan Zhang looks weak, he is full of stubbornness in his bones.
"I'll go prepare my shoes now. Let's set off in the past two days to see what's going on over there." After Yan Zhang said that, he turned his head into the house and found the shoe pattern.
A few days later, the couple took their shoes, dry food and dozens of yuan in banknotes, and resolutely embarked on the road to "find their children" to Yongqing County.
After entering the city, the couple inquired several times and finally arrived at the prison gate, and then walked into the strict high wall under the guidance of the guards.
On that day, the sun outside made people feel quite warm, but as soon as they walked into the prison, patrols, live ammunition, and the high power grid walls standing around made the Yan couple feel a bone-broken cold.
"Will the person inside be Li Yushu later?"
walked to the door of the cell, and the two who stopped and waited, looked at each other at the same time, and found that the other party's eyes were full of the same worry.
"Crash" The lock of the cell door opened, "Li Shu, your parents are here to see you." The guard of
shouted inside, then flashed and retreated aside, without avoiding it.
This is a routine in the cell. Both parties must be held under the nose of the guard. On the one hand, it should prevent the prisoners from escaping with the help of the visitor. Another important aspect is that they can use it to find out the content of the conversation between the two parties.
The room was very dark, and a bitter wail suddenly came from the darkness, "Mom, mom!"
Li Yushu ran out with tears in his face, knelt in front of Yan Bin and his wife, and cried with Yan Zhang's thighs.
Li Yushu was also very nervous these days. This time he was arrested by the enemy. Because his accent was different from that of the locals, he "confessed" to the enemy:
He had been begging for food with his mother in Tianjin since childhood. Later, after his mother passed away, he went with others to beg for food to the Yongqing area. One year he was frozen in the ruined temple of Daqingtan. After being seen by Zhang Yan, he adopted it as his adopted son.
Although he was confused in front of the enemy, if the Yan couple had not taken the risk to visit the prison, the enemy would immediately think of what they said before, and there was something wrong.
Therefore, Li Yushu, who has been worried these days, was very excited when he saw the arrival of Yan Zhang.
When they saw that it was Li Yushu, the couple became calm. Since they had guessed that it might be Li Yushu, Yan Zhang was naturally ready.
"Son, my son." Yan Zhang hugged Li Yushu, and his son was short and hugged Li Yushu and cried bitterly, "Child, you haven't been home for more than two years. Where have you been? Now I'm sending a message to my mother. Do you know, but I missed my mother to death!"
Li Yushu glanced at the guard beside him with the help of his light and continued to cry:
"Mom, I have been running around outside. After a long time, I have accomplished nothing and even made food and clothing difficult. You raise me so big, I'm not doing well outside, and I feel like my face is lost when I go home. Besides, I ran away from home after arguing with you. I have no shame to see you. From then on, I kept wandering outside for a long time. Until I met the Eighth Route Army, they mobilized me to fight against Japan, and I finally followed them to make a living." Li Yushu wiped his tears and continued, "Who knew that I was caught just joining the Eighth Route Army and ended up in such a field." After hearing this, Yan Zhang, hugged Li Yushu's head and cried, crying, "My son is so pitiful, my son is so unfair!" The guards next to
and several prison guards who were close to Tingfeng couldn't help but shake their heads after hearing the conversation between the mother and the mother and son, and they felt that they were really pitiful and lamentable.
After visiting the prison, the guard sent Yan and his wife out of prison. When he was at the door, the guard quietly grabbed Yan Zhang:
"Sister-in-law, I am a soft-hearted person. It is really uncomfortable to see that you are pitiful mother and son today. Since your child has just joined the Eighth Route Army and it has not been long, I will show you a way. Qiao Peiming, the judge here (the authoritative judge in the prison) here, you take this and talk to him. Maybe there is a way."
The guard compared coins with his hands and whispered to Yan Zhang.
After returning home, Yan Zhang discussed with her husband Yan Bin. The two finally decided that since they had hope of saving people, they would rescue Comrade Li Yushu no matter how much hardship they suffered.
Then, the Yan family reluctantly sold the five acres of land they planted, and then sold a few stones of grain. After all, they quickly asked someone to go to the pseudo-government activities and focused on the pseudo-judge Qi Peiming.
Two months later, when Qi Peiming was reporting to the county magistrate, Li Yushu in prison reported to the county magistrate that Li Yushu in prison has been deeply influenced recently and is willing to turn back to the right. The effect is obvious and effective.
After hearing this, the pseudo-county magistrate waved his pen and ordered, "You can ask for bail." After the news reached the Yan family in Daqingyuan, Yan Zhang hurriedly found the village's pseudo- security chief , and the pseudo-guarantee came forward to guarantee and finally took Li Yushu back in prison.
Like many fortress households during the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Zhang rarely mentioned the fact that he had devoted himself to rescue anti-Japanese cadres. It was not until February 1985, when Aunt Yan passed away that the villagers were surprised to find that in front of the old man, a heroic and model album written by the Hebei Women's Federation was placed.
Only then did the people in the village realize that in those turbulent years, this seemingly unknown rural woman had covered up and rescued so many anti-Japanese cadres and masses.
Aunt Yan's son Yan Bingyin once told reporters:
My mother has been very kind in her life. She thinks she should pay attention to doing good things and does not want others to repay or praise them. When this book came out last year, my mother was in poor health, but she was very happy to hear that she was written in this book and kept saying: The Party has not forgotten us, and the veteran cadres have not forgotten us!
During the Anti-Japanese Period, fortresses were spread throughout every village and corner of the enemy-occupied area. They grew like unknown grasses, growing in fields, dense forests, and reed marshes. In the most difficult and dangerous moments, storms were invincible, and the swords were slashing and burning roots, silently protecting those stubborn and unyielding heroes and soldiers.
History will not forget the heroes who fought bloody battles for the country, nor will they forget the heroes who were buried in the long river of history, those people's heroes who once blocked the heroes.
In those years of war, there were countless grassroots heroes. They rose up in the dark, but eventually disappeared into the long river of history. Although these stories hidden in the long river of history are little known, they are still an indispensable part of the magnificent picture of people's war back then.
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Reference materials: "Yong, An, Wan, Gu, Ba people's cultural and historical materials for the War of Resistance", Yongqing and Ba County Party History Office
"Rare Years", Hebei Women's Federation compiled
